Shade-roller and curtain-pole support.



E. A. TAYLOR.-

SHAOE ROLLER AND CURTAIN POLE SUPPORT.

APPLICATION FLLED MAR, 28. 1918.

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EDWARD A. TAYLOR, 0F CHARLESTON, MISSOURI.

SHADE-ROLLER- AND CURTAINZPOL'E SUPPORT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 14, 1919.

Application filed March 28, 1918. Serial No. 225,213.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD A. TAYLOR, a citizen of the United States ofAmerica, residing at Charleston, in the county of Mia sissippi and Stateof Missouri, have invented new and useful Improvements in Shade- \ollerand Curtain-Pole Supports, of which the following is a specification.

The principal object of the invention is to provide a combined shaderoller and ourtain support designed for detachable connection to awindow frame.

Another object is to provide, in a device of this character, a resilientmember conjoined with the device whereby the latter may be secured tothe top arohitrave of a window frame.

Still another object is to provide a device of this kind which is simplein construction, durable and efiective in operation and which may bemanufactured at a low price.

Still another object is the provision of adjustable means conjoined witha resilient member, whereby the device may be convenientlyv applied onwindow frames having difl'erent widths of inside architraves.

'Other and further objects will appear as the invention is set forth indetail in the following description.

To the exact construction herein shown and described, the invention isnot to be restricted. Its application in practice may show certainchanges or alterations to be of advantage and the rightis claimed tomake any which do not depart from the spirit of the subjoined claims.

In the accompanying drawings:

Figure l is a view in elevation of the upper portion of a window frameshowing the devices attached thereto.

Fig. 2 is a perspective view of one of the supporting brackets.

Fig. 3 is a section on the line 33 of Fig. 2. l

In the-drawings, there is shown the upper portion of a window framehaving an inside architrave C to which the invention comprising thebrackets A and B are attached. These two brackets are identical inconstruction with the exception of being opposites for attachment toopposite sides of the window and having a further diifen ence residingin the portions which support the shade roller, this portion of thebracket 18 being designed to receive the round stud of the shade rollerand the corresponding portion of the bracket A being designed to receivethe flat stud which connects with the spring of the shade roller. In allother respects the two brackets are alike and a description of one willsuflice for the other.

The bracket 13 comprises the longitudinal member 1 which is madepreferably of flat steel, the end of which is turned at right angles tothe main portion and appropriately formed to provide the shade rollersupport 2 for the flat stud of a shaderoller.

At one end of the member 1 a hook member 3 is appropriately attached byriveting or other suitable means, this hook member standing at rightangles to the member 1 and having its upper end bent at right angles toits main portion, this right angled end terminating in the dependingbeveled edge lip 1.

Adjacent the shade. roller support 2, the member 1 has a second hookmember 5 which is very similar to the hook member 3, the only differencebetween the two being that the upper end of this hook member is cut awayat the center leaving two hooks 6 with depending lips 7.

Adapted to connect with the longitudinal member 1, there is a platemember 8 which for a specified width at its longitudinal center israised, so that the two side portions 9 may lie flat against the member1 while the center portion stands in spaced relation to the latter. Theside portions 9 terminate below the upper edge of the plate 8 and arebent back on themselves forming the hook members 10 which engage theupper edge of the longitudinal member 1. A longitudinal slot 11 is cutin the center of the raised portion of the plate 8 and the upper end ofthis slot is widened to form the rectangular recess 12, a similar recess13 also being formed so that it extends transversely across the slot 11near the bottom end of the plate 8.

In either the recess 12 or the recess 13, a hook member 14 is designedto be attached, this hook member being made preferably of flat steel(the plate 8 also being preferably of flat steel) and having a widthequal to the widths of the recesses 12 and 13. The depending end of thishook member has formed in it a hole 15 near the bottom of the dependingend with which hole one end of'the spiral spring 16 connects. The lowerend of the spiral spring- 16 attaches to an eye 17 formed of stout steelwire of which the V-shaped hook member 18 is made, the legs of thisV-shaped hook member having their ends turned into a plane at rightangles to the plane of the legs, these right angled ends terminating inpointed upwardly directed portions 19.

In the upper end of the plate 8 which stands above the upper edge of themember 1 a rectangular aperture is formed and in this aperture thehooked member 14 may be engaged.

the conventional variety. It is carried by the hook member 5 between thehooks 6 of the latter.

It will be observed that by making the hook members 14 engage therecesses 13 the two brackets may be made to attach to a window framehaving a relatively wide architrave. In the event that it is desired toattach the brackets to a window frame having a narrower architrave, thehook members 14L may be made to engage the recesses 12 or the apertures20, thus providing means for changing the point of connec tion betweenthe hook members and the plate and thereby providing for a uniformtension on the springs 16 when the brackets are attached to windowframes having dif ferent widths of architraves.

The manner of attaching the device to a window frame will be easilyunderstood by reference to the drawings. The upper ends of the hookmembers 3 and 5 are made to engage through the upper edge of the insidearchitrave of a window frame, the lips v 4: and 7 passing down behindthe architrave. By stretching the spring 16, the V-shaped hook member 18can be made to engage under the lower edge of the corner block of thearchitrave, thus supporting the bracket firmly in position thereon. Itwill be observed that the two brackets A and B, when attaching to thewindow frame can be adjusted with respect to each other, so that theshade roller may be appropriately supported between the two shade rollersupports 2, after which the curtain polo may be placed on top of the twocurtain pole supports 11, the curved ends of the latter being positionedso that they will support the curtain pole above the shade roller.

The invention having been described, what is claimed as new and usefulis:

1. A shade roller and curtain pole sup port comprising a body portionhaving one end turned at right angles thereto and so shaped as toprovide a shade roller support; member, a hook member attached to saidbody portion at either end thereof and adapted to engage the upper edgeof the inside architrave of a window frame, a plate member having hookedengagement; with said body portion and provided with recesses obtainingin spaced relation to each other in the direction of the height of theplate, a hook member engaging either one of the two remaining recesses,a spring connecting with the hook member, and a V-shaped hook memberconnecting with the spring, whereby the device as a whole may beattached to window frames having different: widths of inside architrave.

2. A shade roller and curtain pole support comprising a body portionhaving one end turned at right angles thereto and so shaped as toprovide a curtain pole support, a hook member attached to said bodyportion at either end thereof, the hook member standing upwardly withrespect to the body portion and being provided with end portions turnedat right angles and terminating in depending lips adapted to engagebehind the inside architrave of a window frame, a plate member hai inghooked engagen'ient on the upper edge of said body portion and beingprovided with recesses obtaining in spaced relation to each other in thedirection of the height of the plate, a hook member engaging either oneof the two remaining recesses, a spring connecting with the hook member,and a V-shaped hook member connecting with the spring, whereby thedevice as a whole may be attached. to window frames having differentwidths of inside architrave.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature.

EDWARD A. TAYLOR.

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